Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer, and E. G. Marshall provide the courtroom drama in this TV adaptation of the Broadway play based on Attorney Louis Nizer's 1962 bestseller, My Life in Court...
...Supreme Court has made criticism of a public official virtually libel-proof. Only if a newsman maliciously lies in print can a suit be brought successfully. So it was that last month Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd called off his libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson (TIME, Dec. 22). But Dodd continued to press action against the newsmen for having conspired in the stealing of some of his private documents. It was those documents that Pearson and Anderson had used in the columns that first brought Dodd's financial indiscretions to light. Dodd figured that they...
...journalist may freely discuss the activities of a public official so long as he takes reasonable care to report the facts accurately and his intent is not malicious. In Britain, the libel laws are so strict, so narrowly drawn and so rigidly applied, that what American editors consider good sound reporting can be a clear invitation to a lawsuit...
...violation of Dacey's right to free speech. Late last month New York's highest tribunal, the Court of Appeals, held 6 to 1 that Justice Stevens was right, voided Dacey's fine and abolished the ban. Said Dacey, who brought a $1,500,000 libel action against the Florida bar last week for damaging statements in a bar Journal article: "The New York charge was nothing less than a conspiracy against me. As far as I'm concerned, the case is far from over...
Noting that Dodd was only facing up to "realities," District Court Judge Alexander Holtzoff wryly reprimanded his superiors. "As a result of Times v. Sullivan," he said, "libel law was changed by the Supreme Court in a most revolutionary manner. A court which had previously been concerned with the rights of individuals has limited the rights of holders of public office." The libel limitation, concluded Holtzoff, "is now one of the penalties of being a high official...